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Kevin K. Russell has argued seven merits cases in the Supreme Court in the past seven years.  He has been counsel or co-counsel in dozens of other cases as well, while also  frequently filing amicus briefs  on behalf of groups such as the ACLU, NAACP, the National Women’s Law Center, and constitutional law scholars.  Kevin currently is an instructor in the Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, as well as Harvard’s winter term Supreme Court Litigation clinic.

Prior to joining the firm, Kevin worked  in the Appellate Section of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice.  During that time, he represented the United States in more than thirty-five civil and criminal cases in eleven federal courts of appeals, presenting oral argument in more than two dozen of those cases.

Kevin’s areas of special interest include civil rights, immunity, and matters of jurisdiction and civil procedure.

Kevin clerked for Justice Stephen G. Breyer during the Supreme Court’s October Term 1995.  He also served as a law clerk to Judge William A. Norris on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Supreme Court Arguments

• Freeman v. Quicken Loans, February 2012
• Sossamon v. Texas, November 2, 2010
• Jerman v. Carlisle,  January 13, 2010
• Flores-Figueroa v. United States, February 25, 2009
• AT&T v. Hulteen, December 20, 2008
• Meacham v. Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, April 23, 2008
• Ledbetter v. Goodyear, November 27, 2006

Written Works

• "SCOTUSblog," Updated regularly

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia
• Maryland

Court Admissions

• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S.C.A., 1st Circuit
• U.S.C.A., 2nd Circuit
• U.S.C.A., 4th Circuit
• U.S.C.A., 5th Circuit
• U.S.C.A., 9th Circuit
• U.S.C.A., 10th Circuit
• U.S.C.A., D.C. Circuit
• U.S.C.A., Federal Circuit
• U.S. Court of International Trade

Clerkships

• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S.C.A., 9th Circuit

Education

• J.D., Yale Law School, 1994
• A.B., University of Michigan, 1991